Website review: Solar Energy Could Power U.S. Many ...
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greenbodie discovered 3 months ago- If the U.S. moved aggressively to start harnessing the solar power it receives daily, it could generate enough clean energy to meet the country's needs many times over, according to a new report from Environment Florida.
- JoelBittle rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "The report notes that a 100-mile-by-100-mile solar thermal installation in the American Southwest could meet the entire countryâ€s energy needs. That area, it further adds, is just a little larger than the amount of land in the U.S. that has been strip-mined for coal."
- sdashiki rated 2 months ago
- Its always been true, will always be true...the stars generate all energy...why let any of it go to waste? I mean, sure, dont rely totally on it, but ignoring the huge amount of power generated on the ground daily is staggering. Solar Panels are NOT the only way to get energy from the sun, its just radiation/heat to harness, you dont necessarily need photo-voltaics to make electricity from the sun. Imagine when you are near a large campfire...how close do you have to get before you feel that heat on your face? 20 feet? 50 feet? Now, the sun is 93million miles away, and yet you can stand outside, move from shade to sun and feel the heat of THAT fire. Imagine how much energy the sun truly has...93million miles and you can feel its heat.
- groupsilence rated 2 months ago
- No, it can't because Americans waste close to 2.5 times more power than they produce now. Look at what they are doing with gasoline. Add solar, and they will just leave more and more lights on. Americans have to cut their consumption of everything, plastic, oil, food, electronics and electricity by 65% just to meet the world average maximum usage.
- rattler201 rated 2 months ago
- 10,000 square miles of solar panels is actually not as insane as it sounds. Oh wait, that's about 6.3 times the size of Rhode Island, or roughly 1/10 of Arizona. We do need to move toward solar, but sweet bejeebus that's a lot of solar panels.
- Juan-Nipplito rated 2 months ago
- Ooooh... I'd hate to be the guy who had to wash those solar panels clean. Yikes.
- JohnnyE rated 2 months ago
- I love how it's described with the slightly clunky phrase "100 miles by 100 miles" - is it going to be a perfect square then? - rather than the far more common and less redundant "Ten thousand square miles". Wonder why they phrased it like that...
